Mastodawn

The most dangerous part of AI doom isn’t the forecast.

It’s the posture it produces: the talent exits, governance gets outsourced, and “cash out before the crash” becomes a moral philosophy.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/everything-is-awesome-why-im-an-optimist/

Everything is awesome (why I'm an optimist)

February is the month the internet decided we're all going to die. In the span of about two weeks, Matt Shumer's Something Big is Happening racked up over 80 million views on X with its breathless comparison of AI to the early days of COVID, telling his non-tech friends and

Westenberg.

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emenel

@Daojoan i’m all for optimism, but we need to build it without accepting the “ai” companies’ terms. both your piece and the ones you critique start from the premise that what the “ai” companies say is true. there is no evidence that this technology can do any of what they claim, or that it ever can. and there is a lot of evidence that it can’t and won’t.